Disclosures & privacy.

MORTAL is a fictional company and interactive comedy experience within the SoftBoulders collection. Its services, prices, founders, technology claims, financial outcomes, and service plans are satire. No actual security services, orders, subscriptions, or payments are offered.

What the tests actually do

The entrance puzzle and countermeasure lab run in your browser. Correct answers renew the challenge. Wrong answers, rapid keyboard input in the designated complaint field, repeated cursor reversals over the puzzle, sufficient microphone sound levels after permission, or the explicit admission button can reveal the company page. These are playful heuristics, not reliable tests of humanity, emotion, frustration, or identity.

The displayed bot invoice is an invented counter calculated from actions and the selected intensity. It does not measure token usage or costs. The experience does not connect to AI providers, spend AI credits, bankrupt organizations, install protection on other websites, or implement a real crawler honeypot. An AI agent can leave, stop, or use the admission button. There is no claim that agents only stop when credits run out or a check fails.

The lab's notification requests are in-page controls. They do not request browser notification permissions. Cookie settings are part of the interactive scene, not a real consent-management system. The founder presentation is silent changing text, not an external video. The lab can be ended with Emergency exit or Escape, and ends when the page is hidden. The entrance provides a direct keyboard- and touch-accessible alternative.

Privacy and microphone

The storefront includes a labeled Google AdSense advertisement. Google and its partners may process information and use cookies or similar technologies as described in the SoftBoulders privacy and advertising notice. The interactive tests do not make model API calls or load third-party media. This disclosure page does not carry an ad unit. Test state is held in page memory and resets on reload. The experience does not save the complaint field, transmit typed input, or maintain a persistent humanity score. The hosting provider may process standard requests and access information under its own privacy terms.

The microphone is off by default. Only clicking “Enable optional sigh detection” requests audio permission. If allowed, a local Web Audio analyser measures sound amplitude. There is no recording, speech recognition, transcription, or audio upload. The meter cannot distinguish a sigh from speech or background noise.

Microphone tracks are stopped when a result is detected, when you click Stop microphone, after 15 seconds of listening, when you gain admission, when the page is hidden, or when you leave. You may refuse permission and use any other admission method. Browser-level microphone permissions can be revoked in your browser settings.

Purchases and advertising

Plan buttons display an immediate explanation that no sale or charge will occur. No payment or customer information is collected by the test or plan controls. Advertising data practices are described in the privacy section above. Any future actual offer or affiliate link must be clearly distinguished from these invented services. Disclosure placement does not establish advertising-policy compliance or guarantee ad approval.

Inspiration

The “Annoying Website Trends” concept and sentence “Its main purpose is just to prove a point by being annoying” were supplied by the project creator with this Reddit reference. The surrounding copy, company, and interactions are original to this project. No affiliation with Reddit or endorsement by its users is implied.